TY - JOUR T1 - Relationship between Fusarium spp. diversity and mycotoxin contents of mature grains in southern Belgium. JF - Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hellin, Pierre A1 - Dedeurwaerder, Géraldine A1 - Duvivier, Maxime A1 - Scauflaire, Jonathan A1 - Bart Huybrechts A1 - A. Callebaut A1 - Munaut, Françoise A1 - Legrève, Anne KW - Belgium KW - Depsipeptides KW - DNA, Fungal KW - Edible Grain KW - Food Contamination KW - Fusarium KW - Genes, Mating Type, Fungal KW - Humans KW - Mycotoxins KW - Principal Component Analysis KW - Trichothecenes KW - Zearalenone AB -

Over a 4-year period (2010-13), a survey aiming at determining the occurrence of Fusarium spp. and their relations to mycotoxins in mature grains took place in southern Belgium. The most prevalent species were F. graminearum, F. avenaceum, F. poae and F. culmorum, with large variations between years and locations. An even proportion of mating type found for F. avenaceum, F. culmorum, F. cerealis and F. tricinctum is usually a sign of ongoing sexual recombination. In contrast, an unbalanced proportion of mating type was found for F. poae and no MAT1-2 allele was present in the F. langsethiae population. Genetic chemotyping indicates a majority of deoxynivalenol (DON)-producing strains in F. culmorum (78%, all 3-ADON producers) and F. graminearum (95%, mostly 15-ADON producers), while all F. cerealis strains belong to the nivalenol (NIV) chemotype. Between 2011 and 2013, DON, NIV, enniatins (ENNs) and moniliformin (MON) were found in each field in various concentrations. By comparison, beauvericin (BEA) was scarcely detected and T-2 toxin, zearalenone and α- and β-zearalenols were never detected. Principal component analysis revealed correlations of DON with F. graminearum, ENNs and MON with F. avenaceum and NIV with F. culmorum, F. cerealis and F. poae. BEA was associated with the presence of F. tricinctum and, to a lesser extent, with the presence of F. poae. The use of genetic chemotype data revealed that DON concentrations were mostly influenced by DON-producing strains of F. graminearum and F. culmorum, whereas the concentrations of NIV were influenced by the number of NIV-producing strains of both species added to the number of F. cerealis and F. poae strains. This study emphasises the need to pay attention to less-studied Fusarium spp. for future Fusarium head blight management strategies, as they commonly co-occur in the field and are associated with a broad spectrum of mycotoxins.

VL - 33 CP - 7 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27181458?dopt=Abstract M3 - 10.1080/19440049.2016.1185900 ER -